2018/Res3 Accept proposed trademark license subcommittee structure

2018/Res3: Accept proposed trademark license subcommittee structure

The LWG suggests a common subcommittee with two members of the LWG and one board member should decide on licence requests that are covered by the policy, with the understanding that the subcommittee would have the authority to grant licences in the "quick licence" (aka licence application for which we have a form template) framework licences grants that are of a bespoke nature would be processed by the full LWG and potentially escalated to the OSMF board.

2018/Res4 Offer to register domain names for informal local groups

2018/Res4 Offer to register domain names for informal local group

As proposed:

"To support informal local users groups and to keep things simple, the OSMF offers to register the domain for your group and to point it at the groups website as long as the terms of the trademark policy are followed and this can be done without causing conflicts with other user groups."

This is for local group, not Local Chapters. This would avoid the situation where a domain using the OSM mark gets reused for a non-OSM purpose, or a domain becomes inactive and grabbed by an advertising company.

Previous action items

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Name

Date

Action item and status

All

2017-11-16

In 2018 send an email to members, months in advance of the Annual General Meeting, encouraging them to discuss and perhaps propose their own resolutions.

All

2017-10-26

to go back to the State of the Map Working Group about what a statement regarding the SotM policy might look like. (done) # If a reply takes longer than anticipated the announcement might have to be made anyway, as timing is crucial. # Update 201801: The SotM WG will not continue to take the SotM policy on. Mikel will probably take this up and make a revision, and get input from all the stakeholders (SotM WG, local SotMs, etc), then bring back to Board for sign off.

Restart osmf-announce and post regular reporting

The osmf-talk mailing list had a lot of traffic prior to the board election. Proposal to reinvigorate the osmf-announce mailing list, where the board can simply update members, and push important announcements. Steps that could be taken to get this list started again: